Lecture1 measurement & intrumentation

LECTURE 1: INTRODUCTION TO
MEASUREMENT AND INSTRUMENTATION
Mochamad Safarudin
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, UTeM
2010

 Definition of measurement and instrumentation
 Types of measurements
 Types of instruments in measurements
 Review in units of measurement
 Standard of measurement
 Calibration
 Application of measurement and instrumentation
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 Measurement
◦ A method to obtain information regarding the physical
values of the variable.
 Instrumentation
◦ Devices used in measurement system
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 Physical quantity: variable such as pressure,
temperature, mass, length, etc.
 Data: Information obtained from the
instrumentation/measurement system as a result of the
measurements made of the physical quantities
 Information: Data that has a calibrated numeric
relationship to the physical quantity.
 Parameter: Physical quantity within defined (numeric)
limits.
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measurand Sensor, signal conditioning, display Man, tracking control etc

 Measurand: Physical quantity being measured.
 Calibration: Implies that there is a numeric relationship
throughout the whole instrumentation system and that it
is directly related to an approved national or international
standard.
 Test instrumentation: It is a branch of instrumentation
and most closely associated with the task of gathering
data during various development phases encountered in
engineering, e.g. flight test instrumentation for testing
and approving aircraft.
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Terminology

 Transducer: A device that converts one form of energy
to another.
 Electronic transducer: It has an input or output that is
electrical in nature (e.g., voltage, current or resistance).
 Sensor: Electronic transducer that converts physical
quantity into an electrical signal.
 Actuator: Electronic transducer that converts electrical
energy into mechanical energy.
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 In the case of process industries and industrial
manufacturing…
◦ To improve the quality of the product
◦ To improve the efficiency of production
◦ To maintain the proper operation.
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 To acquire data or information (hence data
acquisition) about parameters, in terms of:
◦ putting the numerical values to the physical quantities
◦ making measurements otherwise inaccessible.
◦ producing data agreeable to analysis (mostly in
electrical form)
 Data Acquisition Software (DAS) – data is
acquired by the instrumentation system.
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 Calibration
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 Direct comparison
◦ Easy to do but… less accurate
 e.g. to measure a steel bar
 Indirect comparison
◦ Calibrated system; consists of several devices to
convert, process (amplification or filtering) and display
the output
 e.g. to measure force from strain gages located in a
structure
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 Stage 1: A detection-transducer or sensor-transducer, stage; e.g.
Bourdon tube
 Stage 2: A signal conditioning stage; e.g. gearing, filters, bridges
 Stage 3: A terminating or readout-recording stage; e.g. printers,
oscilloscope
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General Structure of Measuring System

 Calibration
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 Active Instruments
◦ the quantity being measured simply modulates (adapts to) the
magnitude of some external power source.
 Passive Instruments
◦ the instrument output is entirely produced by the quantity being
measured
 Difference between active & passive instruments is the level of
measurement resolution that can be obtained.
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 e.g. Float-type petrol tank level indicator
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Circuit excited
by external
power source
(battery)

 The change in petrol level moves a potentiometer arm,
and the output signal consists of a proportion of the
external voltage source applied across the two ends of
the potentiometer.
 The energy in the output signal comes from the external
power source: the primary transducer float system is
merely modulating the value of the voltage from this
external power source.
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 e.g. Pressure-measuring device
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 The pressure of the fluid is translated into a
movement of a pointer against scale.
 The energy expanded in moving the pointer is
derived entirely from the change in pressure
measured: there are no other energy inputs to
the system.
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 An analogue instrument gives an output that
varies continuously as the quantity being
measured; e.g. Deflection-type of pressure
gauge
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 A digital instrument has an output that varies in
discrete steps and only have a finite number of
values; e.g. Revolution counter
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 Calibration
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 To define physical quantities in type and magnitude
 Units of measurement may be defined as the standard
measure of each kind of physical quantity.
 Efforts were made to standardise systems of
measurement so that instrument professionals and
specialist in other disciplines could communicate among
themselves.
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 Two types of units are used in science and engineering
◦ Fundamental units ( or quantities)
 E.g. meter (length), kilogram (mass), second (time)
◦ Derived units (or quantities); i.e. All units which can be
expressed in terms of fundamental units
 E.g. The volume of a substance is proportional to its length (l),
breadth (b) and height (h), or V= lx b x h.
 So, the derived unit of volume (V) is cube of meter (m 3
).
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Quantity Unit Unit Symbol
Fundamental (Basic) Units
Length Meter m
Mass Kilogram kg
Time Second s
Electric current Ampere A
Thermodynamic temperature Kelvin K
Luminous intensity Candela cd
Quantity of substance Mole mol
Supplementary Units
Plane angle Radian rad
Solid angle Steradian sr
Derived Units
Area Square meter m2
Volume Cubic meter m3
Velocity Meter per second m/s

 Foot-pound-second (F.P.S.) used for:
◦ Length
◦ Mass
◦ Time
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 Calibration
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 As a physical representation of a unit of measurement
 It is used for obtaining the values of the physical
properties of other equipment by comparison methods;
e.g.
◦ The fundamental unit of mass in the SI system is the
kilogram, defined as the mass of a cubic decimeter of
water at its temperature of maximum density of 4°C.
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 International Organization for Standardization
(ISO)
 International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
 American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
 Standards Council of Canada ( SCC)
 British Standards (BS)
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 Calibration
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Calibration consists of comparing the output of the
instrument or sensor under test against the output of
an instrument of known accuracy (higher accuracy)
when the same input (the measured quantity is applied
to both instrument)
The procedure is carried out for a range of inputs covering
the whole measurement range of the instrument or sensor
Ensures that the measuring accuracy of all instruments and
sensors used in a measurement system is known over the
whole measurement range, provided that the calibrated
instruments and sensors are used in environmental conditions
that are the same as those under which they were calibrated

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Calibration involve a comparison
of an instrument with either:
1. A primary standard
2. A secondary standard
3. A known input
Example:
Weighing instrument
Standard weight
measurement facility
(for example: NIST)
Another weighing
instrument of higher
accuracy
Mass standard

 The method and apparatus for performing measurement
instrumentation calibrations vary widely.
 A rule that should be followed is that the calibration
standard should be at least 10 times as accurate as the
instrument being calibrated.
 By holding some inputs constant, varying others and
recording the output(s) develop the desired static input-
output relations. Many trial and runs are needed.
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 Calibration
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 Home
◦ Thermometer
◦ Barometer
◦ Watch
 Road vehicles
◦ speedometer
◦ fuel gauge
 Industry
◦ Automation
◦ Process control
◦ Boiler control
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Performance of Static Characteristics in
Measurement and Instrumentation
End of Lecture 1
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